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Episode 1255 - Oh "ph" - Wallaces - Chicago - 20th century thinkers - Written in cyrillic
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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1255, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Oh Ph. With Ph in quotes
- 1: For the record, Thomas Edison invented the first practical one of these in 1877.
- the phonograph.
- 2: The mortar and pestle is a symbol of this profession.
- a pharmacist.
- 3: In days gone by this game bird was popularly served "under glass".
- a pheasant.
- 4: A finger bone, or a group of heavily armed infantry with overlapping weapons.
- a phalanx.
- 5: In mythology, after Hippolytus rejects her, this wife of Theseus hangs herself.
- Phaedra.
Round 2. Category: Wallaces
- 1: Lurleen Burns married this man when she was 16 and later succeeded him as governor of Alabama.
- George Wallace.
- 2: Before "Braveheart" his story was told in the 15th century by Henry the Minstrel.
- William Wallace.
- 3: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) Mike's son, this broadcaster became NBC News White House Correspondent in 1982.
- Chris Wallace.
- 4: He and his wife Lila launched Reader's Digest in 1922 with a press run of 5,000.
- DeWitt Wallace.
- 5: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a famous work by this poet whose day job was VP of an insurance company.
- Wallace Stevens.
Round 3. Category: Chicago
- 1: Remove 1 letter from the name of a plaza in Dallas and you get this plaza in Chicago's Loop.
- Daley Plaza.
- 2: Nearly 250,000 gathered to see Obama's 2008 victory speech in Chicago's front yard, this park named for another president.
- Grant Park.
- 3: Scandalous highlight of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and title of the following:"She had a ruby on her tummy and / A diamond big as Texas on her toe, whoa whoa / She let her hair down and / She did the hoochie coochie real slow, whoa whoa".
- "Little Egypt".
- 4: Untouchable Tours visits such sanguineous spots as the site of this February 1929 event.
- the Valentine's Day Massacre.
- 5: Some attribute this nickname of the city to its proud, boasting citizens, not its breeziness.
- "The Windy City".
Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Thinkers
- 1: Called the Russian Revolution's most brilliant thinker, he lost a power struggle with Stalin and was killed in Mexico.
- Trotsky.
- 2: This New Yorker wondered, "Can we actually 'know' the universe?... It's hard enough finding your way around Chinatown".
- Woody Allen.
- 3: The works of this woman on the left include 1965's "Normality and Pathology in Childhood".
- Anna Freud.
- 4: This 3-named economist was an architect of the International Monetary Fund and part of the Bloomsbury Group.
- Keynes.
- 5: This "in the machine" was Gilbert Ryle's term for the idea that the mind is apart from the body yet controls it.
- ghost in the machine.
Round 5. Category: Written In Cyrillic
- 1: Some Tajik speakers call their language Zaboni Forsi, meaning this national tongue.
- Persian.
- 2: This carnivore associated with Russia is medved in Russian.
- a bear.
- 3: One way to say hello in Serbian is this, borrowed from Italian.
- ciao.
- 4: In Ukrainian, this winter month when Russia invaded in 2022 is Lyutyy, "cruel".
- February.
- 5: Belarussian took words like "pan", meaning "sir" or "mister" from this language spoken due west of Belarus.
- Polish.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/
AI Voices used
1311 tập
Manage episode 429565147 series 3394361
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1255, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Oh Ph. With Ph in quotes
- 1: For the record, Thomas Edison invented the first practical one of these in 1877.
- the phonograph.
- 2: The mortar and pestle is a symbol of this profession.
- a pharmacist.
- 3: In days gone by this game bird was popularly served "under glass".
- a pheasant.
- 4: A finger bone, or a group of heavily armed infantry with overlapping weapons.
- a phalanx.
- 5: In mythology, after Hippolytus rejects her, this wife of Theseus hangs herself.
- Phaedra.
Round 2. Category: Wallaces
- 1: Lurleen Burns married this man when she was 16 and later succeeded him as governor of Alabama.
- George Wallace.
- 2: Before "Braveheart" his story was told in the 15th century by Henry the Minstrel.
- William Wallace.
- 3: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) Mike's son, this broadcaster became NBC News White House Correspondent in 1982.
- Chris Wallace.
- 4: He and his wife Lila launched Reader's Digest in 1922 with a press run of 5,000.
- DeWitt Wallace.
- 5: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a famous work by this poet whose day job was VP of an insurance company.
- Wallace Stevens.
Round 3. Category: Chicago
- 1: Remove 1 letter from the name of a plaza in Dallas and you get this plaza in Chicago's Loop.
- Daley Plaza.
- 2: Nearly 250,000 gathered to see Obama's 2008 victory speech in Chicago's front yard, this park named for another president.
- Grant Park.
- 3: Scandalous highlight of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and title of the following:"She had a ruby on her tummy and / A diamond big as Texas on her toe, whoa whoa / She let her hair down and / She did the hoochie coochie real slow, whoa whoa".
- "Little Egypt".
- 4: Untouchable Tours visits such sanguineous spots as the site of this February 1929 event.
- the Valentine's Day Massacre.
- 5: Some attribute this nickname of the city to its proud, boasting citizens, not its breeziness.
- "The Windy City".
Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Thinkers
- 1: Called the Russian Revolution's most brilliant thinker, he lost a power struggle with Stalin and was killed in Mexico.
- Trotsky.
- 2: This New Yorker wondered, "Can we actually 'know' the universe?... It's hard enough finding your way around Chinatown".
- Woody Allen.
- 3: The works of this woman on the left include 1965's "Normality and Pathology in Childhood".
- Anna Freud.
- 4: This 3-named economist was an architect of the International Monetary Fund and part of the Bloomsbury Group.
- Keynes.
- 5: This "in the machine" was Gilbert Ryle's term for the idea that the mind is apart from the body yet controls it.
- ghost in the machine.
Round 5. Category: Written In Cyrillic
- 1: Some Tajik speakers call their language Zaboni Forsi, meaning this national tongue.
- Persian.
- 2: This carnivore associated with Russia is medved in Russian.
- a bear.
- 3: One way to say hello in Serbian is this, borrowed from Italian.
- ciao.
- 4: In Ukrainian, this winter month when Russia invaded in 2022 is Lyutyy, "cruel".
- February.
- 5: Belarussian took words like "pan", meaning "sir" or "mister" from this language spoken due west of Belarus.
- Polish.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/
AI Voices used
1311 tập
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